Ocean Animals | Ocean Animal Research Report

Engage your students with this fun and comprehensive, 33 page Ocean Animals Research Report resource. It helps make report writing easy! It contains worksheets, questions, organizers, tools, forms, and academic vocabulary for your students to create, develop, write, edit, illustrate, present, and assess your students’ Ocean Animals Research Report.

This report (or performance task) is also designed to not only to learn and explain the new information, but answer some higher level thinking questions (Common Core Essential Questions) to apply the knowledge they have learned.

This report packaged is designed to have your students choose one ocean animal, to research it, and complete this report.

A simple rubric and student checklist is included. You can also add to this report by asking your students to do a model or large poster of their ocean animal as well.

You can use this report template in its entirety, or “pick and choose” the questions that you wish to use and tailor it to your students’ needs. This package contains the following planet report elements:

1. Creative Cover and folder for report

2. Title Page- (Animal Name, your name, teacher name)

3. Sea Animal Report (Template)

A. Topic and Introduction

B. Description

C. Habitat/ Special Characteristics

D. Life Cycle

E. Eating Habits

F. Predators and Prey/ How animal protects itself

G. Communication/ Closely Related Relatives

H. Interesting and Unusual Facts

I. Would it make a good pet?

J. Compare and Contrast Two Animals

K. A Day in the Life of Your Animal

3. Illustrations

4. Life Cycle

5. Finding Your Information

6. Resources or Bibliography

7. Graphic Organizer (Tree Map)

8. Notes page two varieties

9. Power Point Information Sheet, Project Sheet, and Oral Report ( if needed)

10. Rubric for Report or Performance Task

11. Student Check List

12. CCSS Bulletin Board Standard to post

13. Teacher Notes

1 PDF file.